Dire Straits

by Michelle Singer Noah and the Whale are in Seattle settling in before they embark on the first night of their North American tour to support their fourth album Heart of Nowhere.  Tom Hobden (violin, keys) is hanging out in the local fish market before their show later that Read More

It seems a bit incongruous to consider Dire Straits’s brilliant 1985 masterpiece, “Brothers in Arms” for a column on lost and forgotten albums, but I’m going to do it anyway, if for no other reason than it gives me an excuse to fire up the turntable and give it another listen. Read More